Two years ago for my daughter's first birthday I decided to brew a beer for her party. With a lot of friends and family attending, I wanted to make something accessible to everyone, yet interesting enough at the same time. I decided on using Orange Blossom Honey in a wheat ale. It turned out really well, and for my son's birthday party, I decided to brew another wheat beer. I'm not a big fan of the traditional American wheat ales, but at the same time they are a great beer to make as a crowd pleaser. I decided to add Agave nectar to my son's version, and also decided to use the Belgian Wheat yeast 3942 to make it a little more interesting. Once the fermentation was complete, I added .5 lb of Agave nectar to the primary before kegging. At about two weeks since kegging it's tasting nice, right now the agave gives it a nice sweetness and the Belgian yeast gives it just enough spice and funkiness to make it interesting but doesn't detract from the simplicity of the beer. In about 3 weeks when the party is, it should be a nice beer.The recipe was simple:
6 lbs Wheat LME ( 3@ 60, 3@ 20)
1 lb Flaked Wheat steeped
1 oz Spalt Select Hops (5% aau) @ 60
8 oz Agave Nectar @ 5, 8 oz Agave Nectar at kegging
Belgian Wheat 3942
I plan on getting to the review of my Gringo 2010, plus I'm brewing up a Belgian IPA this week inspired by Stone's Cali-Belgiue IPA.
More to come,
Salud!
Bearded Brewer
5 comments:
It took me a long time to search on the net, only your site open up the fully details, bookmarked and thanks again.
- Laura
I should digg your article so more folks can see it, really helpful, I had a hard time finding the results searching on the web, thanks.
- Mark
I am doing research for my college thesis, thanks for your excellent points, now I am acting on a sudden impulse.
- Lora
I like reading your blog for the reason that you can always get us new and awesome stuff, I think that I should at least say a thank you for your hard work.
- Henry
I truly am grateful what you're doing here!
Post a Comment